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Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Micro systems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network ...

So we have a bunch of SSD disks and would like to put them in a zpool on a Solaris 10 system. The file system will be exported via NFS to about 50 Ubuntu clients which will mount it as their $HOME. I ...

I have 15 CentOS servers running a mix of version 5 and 6. Each of these servers are integrated with a Microsoft Active Directory with a tool called VAS/QAS (ventella Authentication Services /Quest ...

I have two RHEL 7 machines.
I have installed nginx and php-fpm and setup a nfs mount. I can read/write to the nfs mount without issues and I have another application server (Apache Geronimo) that is ...

I am working on two virtual machines, running Ubuntu 14.04. So, one VM is the server and the other the client. Here's what I've done till now:
Server VM:
sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
sudo ...

I have some diskless machines and they mount a disk through NFS4. I want the machines to maintain a cache of specific files in their own memory. The machines don't modify the files and only read them ...

on Ubuntu 14.04 when I open a file browser or an "Open File" Dialog, the application hangs for about 5 to 10 seconds.
I suspect this is due to some NFS requests. But how can I find out for sure?
Is ...

I'm running a storage server that has to mount home-dirs of different users at several (5) centos servers. The NFS storage server has direct Fibrechannel storage (with high speed, verified).
When the ...

We have a 100% non concurrent access to an NFS share. Each client accesses its own files, separated in directories.
So a client will make read and write operations on its own directory, but will never ...

This is on 12.04 LTS with the latest ZFS on Linux from the ppa.
I have two a storage pool named data, and a dataset data/Other with different settings (e.g. compression).
I set data to sharenfs and ...

I have a host OS Ubuntu 14.04 (my main OS). I run a Windows 10 client inside VirtualBox.
I wish for NFS4 to work between them, I cannot see the share in my Windows 10 client. I followed the following ...

I have some (6) boxes that have an NFS share mounted on which they write files. All run ubuntu 14.01 and the NFS server is a standard nfs-server from ubuntu packages. This works well.
However, when ...

I'm trying to setup a NFS client on a new CentOS 6.6 server to an existing NFS server and am having problems that I cannot figure out. When starting rpcbind/nfs I get:
# /etc/init.d/rpcbind start
# ...

We'd like to share files through an Win08R2 EC2 instance with clients (Windows 7 machines) through the default NFS (i.e. avoiding 3rd party software like Dropbox/Aws-s3 etc.).
Encryption at rest is ...

My NFS shares created by vagrant are being blocked by firewalld. The host is Fedora 21 and the client Debian 7.7. This is common problem that should be solved by opening the firewall for NFS as seen ...

I try to use NFSv4 over gpfs, but I'm get the following errors:
# nfs4_getfacl file
Operation to request attribute not supported.
# nfs4_setfacl -e file
Operation to request attribute not supported.
...

I have files stored on an NFS mount which I want to prevent being deleted. The use case is I have a demo version of a web application which uses the same images on every demo - when someone deletes a ...

I set up a NFSv4 server with Kerberos authentication and it runs well. However, some users stay logged in for long times such that they have to renew their tickets after some days. If during the time ...

I'm using NFS to share a directory between host (nfs-serer) and guest (nfs-client) system.
I did not want to use KVM's preferred module 9p due to slow transfer speeds - NFS, does yield about twenty ...

I have a couple of windows server instances running on Amazon EC2 with VisualSVN Server and would like to make them a bit more fault tolerant by running a duplicate instance with load balancers.
The ...

I mounted an NFS export and started a process that I expected to write a significant amount of data to the shared disk. The speed of the shared disk was so slow that I killed the process, but IO on ...

Let's say in a server A with 100GB partition, user create a NFS export directory. In server B, user mount the NFS share to use it.
In server A, can the NFS server limit the amount of disk space that ...